A walk-on role on the Joss Whedon-penned movie In Your Eyes is currently up for auction on eBay.
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If you’re the kind of superfan who acts out Buffy the Vampire Slayer in your living room, it might be time to get out your credit card: An eBay auction is under way for a role in an upcoming Joss Whedon film, and it could be yours!

Now that Whedon’s surprise reboot of Much Ado About Nothing has wrapped filming, Bellwether Pictures — the nerd auteur’s microstudio he runs with wife Kai Cole — is launching into In Your Eyes. The film, which is being directed by Brin Hill and...

Federal authorities used a fake Verizon cellphone tower to zero in on a suspect’s wireless card, and say they were perfectly within their rights to do so, even without a warrant.

But the feds don’t seem to want that legal logic challenged in court by the alleged identity thief they nabbed using the spoofing device, known generically as a stingray. So the government is telling a court for the first time that spoofing a legitimate wireless tower in order to conduct surveillance could be considered a search under the Fourth Amendment in this particular case, and that its use was legal, thanks to a...